I live “way out” in the woods. I didn’t hear robins in the dark at all. We have no street lights–is that the reason? The spring peepers woke up two days ago and yesterday the leopard frogs began their songs. Their sounds soothe me. This is so wonderful.

When I got home last evening it was already close to 8pm & I did hear robins too . I didn’t know for sure what birds were serenading me but learned it from your wonderful blog. Thanks for keeping all informed about this Was wonderful to here. I think the only nest I know of as of yesterday was Harrisburg & eagles in Iowa, springing is springing!!

I saw my first Robin here in Alabama, I think it was about 3 weeks ago now. They are hopping all over the place when I walk the dog in the AM. One of my dear “farm” friends from upstate NY used to say to me that it wasn’t officially spring until the “Peepers” had been frozen over 3 times. Has anyone else every heard that?

Speaking of frogs….can anyone recommend a way to identify by sound our local frogs? Can anyone describe the basic sounds these frogs make? Is there a helpful site which might describe the sounds they make and when?

Last week I’ve talked to my sister in law in Lithuania and she told be a thing that i’ve never thought about: When birds migrate and we think that they’re going for the win ter and in spring they’ll comeback home – to US, kinda, these are OUR birds.
She told me: don’t you think, that people there, where birds migrate for the winter, think the same: these birds are THEIR birds and when birds migrate back for the winter, they coming back to THEM…and birds come to visit US for the summertime only…

Now, about Starlings…these are songbirds and chatters…Have anyone tried to whistle while seeing starlings?
I do now this almost everyday, when I go outside building where I work for a smoke.
I have pretty good “success” rate for starlings whistle me back.
What did I noticed, starlings might not whistle back in a cloudy/rainy day, but in a sunny day, they do sometimes whistle in chorus.